Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-09-15
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS

every year In salaries.
Mount Pleasant capitalists are going
o form a company and bore for gas.
Tho First Michigan Infantry will hold
its annual reunion in jackson Sept 20.
There are 316 telephones In Jackson,
An increase Of forty since Jan. /, and l75
miles Of wire.
"A movement is on foot at Jackson to
q society for the prevention OF
crueliy to animals.
The fifteenth annual fair Of the Ar
mada Agricultural Society occurs at that
place October s, and 4.
Thirty men went hunting near jackson
on Sunday, and warrants are issued for
fifteen OF them for violating the game law.
Five jugs of whisky were found on the
grounds of the John Jacob Astor House in
Detroit. The proprietor thinks it is sew
enty- five years old.
A woman OF Bay City disguised her
self as O man and clerked in store Tor q
year and obtained admission into the
knights OF Pytnias.
-E. d. Cory, Of Sturgis, who runs q
stationery store and deals In pianos, has
made an assignment to N. S. Packard.
Liabilities, $4,000; assets not known.
Mrs. Iva Richmond, of Golden, was
thrown into the machinery of reaper that
she was driving, but her life was saved by
her faithful dog, that rushed forward and
stopped the team.
There has been no rain at Cheboygan
for six weeks, and great clouds OF smoke
from forest fires are still hanging over the
place. The woods in the vicinity are ap-
parently all on fire, and the damage 70
timber will reach an enormous figure.
The country round about LAnse is
literally full OF homestcadcrs waiting 70
learn whether Secretary Lamar's decision
forfeiting the land grant OF the Marquette,
Houghton and Ontonagon Road is sus-
tanned. The feeling there is strongly In
favor of opening up the lands to the home
steaders.
"A young man named Myers, down from
camp. supposed to have had considerable
money, stopped at Tawas City, recently.
He is now missing. His clothing, smeared
with blood, was found in a woodpile, and
his shoes at house near by. The house
was searched and traces Of blood from the
bedroom to the outside door freshly washed
were found. Parties are dragging the river
for the body. Arrests will be made.
Circuit Judge Judkins ordered Grand
Rapids architect to examine the new Lake
County Court House at Baldwin. In his
report the architect said that the building
would not stand longer than spring, as the
brick was very inferior. This will probi-
bly, end the long courthouse fight, and
Luther's offer of $1,000 and a site be ac-
cepted. large amount of money hat
been expended on the condemned building
by Baldwin parties, who will lose theil
cash. A sharp investigation will be started
by the Judge.
There is COW at Ishpeming tina
knows thing or two if she is but COW
Her favorite food is the red geranium, al
though other flowers, shrubbery, and evei
lawn grass, If choice, are eaten. She cal
} recognize the poundmaster two block
> away, and will run from q policeman n
naturally as any other thief. She can opel
! garden gate as handily as person, ant
D will always close it after her unless har'
, pressed by some would-be captor. A com
. miitee Of prominent citizens has been ap
pointed to place her in custody, but she ha
q already learned their identity, and not on
!. can get within gunshot of her.
0 -Perrinton is one of the 1887 towns o
Michigan, SO will not be found in tn
Estate Gazetteer" II is on the new To
ledo, Saginaw and Muskegon Railroad
= situated in the township of Fulton, Cratic
County; is ten miles southwest of Ithac
. and fourteen miles south of Alma. Goo
: farming country. Plated last April. PoI
/: ulation, $50. Has one general store, on
y !, grocery, one drug store, one bardwal
: store, one meat market, one shoe store, on
ls harness shop, one blacksmith an
8; wagon shop, one saw and planning mill, OF
- 70 hotel, one livery stable, one ashery, OF
> barber shop, and, last but not least, OF
r newspaper. There are located there OF
81 physician, one auctioneer, two painter
: - eight carpenters, four masons, one dra,
y man, one architect, and numerous rea
10 estate operators.
= A few months ago the village of Asl
T. lev was incorporated, and within week
Of its birth a special election was held
d. bond the place for $500 for water work
10 It was a tacitly understood matter that !
IS, water works were wanted, but that the 50
s. bonds were to be given to the Toled
d Saginaw and Muskegon Railroad, and I
IA securities were handed over to the CO
r. poration. Abraham Shellanbarger, REF
dent of the village, refuses TO pay the
= assessed for interest on the bonds, and
of procured restraining injunction, the ]
M suit of which will be that the substrata
d the whole bonding business will be air
he in the courts, and On attempt will be ma
n by w. A. Bake, the plaintiffs attorney,
or show that the town was only incorporat
nd for tho sole purpose Of issuing tho 81
bonds.
Id A reward of $500 has been offered
70, the citizens of Gaylord for informant
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